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Show Wayne Christoffcrsen Named Clerk Of U.S. District Court ; p . - 1 f 41 ' "111 i ' ' ; tit ' 5 l!&d'4 ' v' t r y . IN WAYNE CIIRISTOFFERSEN A Salt Lake attorney and businessman, busi-nessman, Wayne Christoffcrsen, has been appointed clerk of the U. S. District Court for Utah. Mr. Christofferson will assume the post on Monday, succeeding Sharon L. Hatch, who resigned to become executive secretary of the Inter-Institute, Inc., Providence, Provi-dence, R. I. Judge Willis W. Ritter, chief judge of the court, announced the appointment. Mr. Christoffersen is a native of Brigham City. He was deputy clerk of the District of Columbia Police Court from 1936 to 1939 when he was attending George Washington University, where he obtained a law degree in 1940. He returned to Utah and became be-came an assistant to former Utah attorney general Joseph Chez. Prior to studying at George Washington he attended Utah State University. He served as chief counsel for the Utah Tax Commission between be-tween 1942 and 1949, was deputy dep-uty secretary of state for Utah from 1949 to 1953 and served as assistant city attorney for Salt Lake City from 1953 to 1955. |